In the Wake of the Giant: Multinational Restructuring and Uneven Development in a New England Community

Contrasting "native" and "outsider" points of view, this book explores the contemporary realities of work, development and redevelopment in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a New England community undergoing rapid industrial restructuring.
Based on anthropological fieldwork in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, In the Wake of the Giant has implications for towns and cities across the country and internationally. It traces the history of the Pittsfield region, the U.S. economy, and the tidal wave of multinational corporate restructurings. Comparing communities undergoing restructuring to newly independent states, Kirsch shows how these communities confront for the first time the challenge of directing their own present and future. The turmoil that develops as a result of these changes, and the means by which individuals, kin-groups and community voluntary organizations react and adapt are central themes of the book.

About the author

Max H. Kirsch teaches anthropology at Oberlin College. He is past Associate Dean of the Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Max H. Kirsch
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1998
• EAN: 9780791438275
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3827-5
• No. of pages: 146
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Suny Series, Anthropology of W; Suny Series, Anthropology of W; Suny the Anthropology of Work
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics